Murphy the flop-flipper (i.imgur.com)
Murphy was found in a storm drain. We guess he was just under a year old when we adopted him. This video is from two years ago when he was around 18. He’s still alive today and showing no signs of slowing down.
Bubble Trouble (www.wheresyoured.at)
Senegal’s Democracy Passes Crucial Test (www.ipsnews.net)
Earthquake centered near New York City rattles the Northeast (apnews.com)
The agency reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia....
IDF Allowed 100 Civilian Deaths for Every Hamas Official Targeted by Error-Prone AI System (www.commondreams.org)
German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)
Talking to Manton Reece about IndieWeb, Federation, and Personal Blogging (wedistribute.org)
We sat down and interviewed Manton Reece, the creator of Micro.Blog. Micro.Blog is an IndieWeb platform with microblogging capabilities that marries a social experience with a more traditional personal website / blogging concept. It federates via ActivityPub, and has been a part of the Fediverse since 2018.
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (www.nytimes.com)
Godot Engine GDC 2024: Retrospective (godotengine.org)
Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift (www.eurogamer.net)
In an interview with Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza at GDC in late March, where a new suite of AI-powered creation tools was demoed, I asked about the reputation Roblox hac gained and the notion that it was exploitative of young developers, since it takes a cut from work sometimes produced by children....
Share your Cell Lab creations! Think Spore cell stage, but much more advanced. (www.cell-lab.net)
This is a niche game for people with an interest in biology, about multicellular evolution that is unlike anything else out there. I am looking for other people to share creations with and maybe even have them face off in an environment together. It runs on an older version of Android but I use the bluestacks emulator to play on...
Medellín, Colombia, bans sex work in two areas after U.S. tourist found with minors (www.nbcnews.com)
The ban will be in effect for six months, and some bars will be required to close by 1 a.m. for the next month, according to a statement from the mayor’s office....
Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14095378...
Accessibility guides about using Mastodon from a blind perspective (social.growyourown.services)
Apple finally has a way to defeat ChatGPT | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Biden Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire in Call With Israel’s Netanyahu (www.wsj.com)
He also called on Israel to take immediate steps “to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers” and “made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps,” according to the White House statement....
Disney’s Steam Deck controlled droids are coming back to Galaxy’s Edge (www.pcgamesn.com)
Spain to recognize Palestinian statehood by July (www.politico.eu)
Italian island overrun by goats is offering them free to anyone who can catch them (www.cnn.com)
Joe Lewis spared jail time for part in ‘brazen’ insider trading conspiracy (www.theguardian.com)
The British billionaire Joe Lewis was spared jail time for his part in a “brazen” insider trading conspiracy on Thursday, and was instead fined $5m and given a three-year probation by a New York judge....
After Killing of US Aid Worker in Gaza, the US Doubles Down on Military Aid to Israel (peoplesdispatch.org)
Embedding the Servo Web Engine in Qt (www.kdab.com)
While the task of writing a brand new standard-compliant browser engine is infamous as being almost unachievable nowadays (and certainly so with Chromium coming in at 31 million lines of code), the Rust ecosystem has been brewing up a new web rendering engine called Servo. Initially created by Mozilla in 2012, Servo is still...
UN rights council demands halt to arms sales to Israel (www.france24.com)
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday demanded a halt in all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of “genocide” in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 33,000 people....